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Autore: | Nolan Janet <1946-> |
Titolo: | Ourselves alone : women's emigration from Ireland, 1885-1920 / / Janet A. Nolan |
Pubblicazione: | Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2009 |
©1989 | |
Edizione: | Paperback edition. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (148 p.) |
Disciplina: | 304.8/3730415 |
Soggetto topico: | Young women - Ireland - Social conditions |
Single women - Ireland - Social conditions | |
Women immigrants - United States - History | |
Irish - United States - History | |
Soggetto geografico: | Ireland Emigration and immigration History |
Note generali: | Includes index. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Going Alone; 1 The Changing Face of Ireland, 1830-1880; 2 Women and Social Change, 1830-1880; 3 Women and Emigration, 1880-1920; 4 The Impact of Women's Emigration, 1880-1920; 5 Irish Women in America, 1880-1920; Conclusion: ""Ourselves Alone""; Appendix; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
Sommario/riassunto: | In early April of 1888, sixteen-year-old Mary Ann Donovan stood alone on the quays of Queenstown in county Cork waiting to board a ship for Boston in far-off America. She was but one of almost 700,000 young, usually unmarried women, traveling alone, who left their homes in Ireland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in a move unprecedented in the annals of European emigration. Using a wide variety of sources -- many of which appear here for the first time -- including personal reminiscences, interviews, oral histories, letter, and autobiographies as well as data from Irish |
Titolo autorizzato: | Ourselves alone |
ISBN: | 0-8131-4760-3 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910787381103321 |
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